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Reading is my passion.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Passion
Reading
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too, then I feel like my time has been well spent.
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo
I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
Kate DiCamillo
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
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